DALLAS - A 4-year-old Dallas boy whose battle with cancer inspired his father's firefighting crew, then firefighters from across the country to post photos of support for him on his Facebook page has died.

DALLAS (AP) — A 4-year-old Dallas boy whose battle with cancer inspired his father's firefighting crew, then firefighters from across the country to post photos of support for him on his Facebook page has died.

DALLAS — The father of an American freelance journalist working in volatile regions of Syria said late Thursday that he's hopeful his son will turn up safe even though he hasn't been in contact with his editors or his family in Texas in more than a week.

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DALLAS — Leon Breeden, legendary director of the University of North Texas' jazz program who made its One O'Clock Lab Band internationally famous, died Wednesday at the age of 88. Breeden died at St. Paul Hospital in Dallas of complications from a widespread abdominal infection, said longtime friend Richard Cox said. Under Breeden's direction, the One O'Clock Band — named for its rehearsal time — became the first college band to receive a Grammy nomination and to perform at the White House.